I am reminded of the story of the miser who, on his death bed, told his wife to put all the money he stashed around the house, into his coffin so he could buy his way into heaven.
She promised to do it. She then took all the money, deposited it in the local bank, and at the miser’s funeral, she wrote out a check and buried it with the miser.
My “Prosperity Gospel”: Love God and Country, honor Duty, work hard and it may pay off for you.
you dont quite have it right... i will guess your not much of a bible reader... the parable of the talents points out that god prefers you do whats right and often doing whats right brings you prosperity... it does not mean that your rich to be prosperous... and it DOES mean that the more you can handle the more god gives you and the more your tested. so a person who does well in the right way, will be blessed, but the reward comes with more responsiblity... its not as you say, get rich, go to heaven... how you get rich matters, wht you do after you get it matters, and so on.
duh.
Big money is rarely made accidentally, and most rich people while clean gentle and polite on the surface, make thousands of bad little, and big decisions, that apply to their goal of obtaining the golden ring.
We see it everyday, it is common for people to separate what they do for money, from their considerations of morality.
All those corruptions that we run into in our society, from cable TV to Banks, and contractors, mayors and lawyers and landlords, well they might all be wonderful people off the clock, but when it comes to money, even the nice church lady answering the phone for the cable company for $8.00 and hour, will do or say almost anything her bosses tell her to say and do, and her bosses are much worse as are all the people who design the business plans, and design the corruption built into the business models and that influence the politics and legislation that shape their industries.
It is a rare person that gets rich accidentally, for most people it takes almost total concentration and devotion and a willingness to do almost anything, as long as it is “business”.
The thought is that God blesses those who please him and that extends to material blessings. I don’t have a problem with that fundamental idea and you can see it in the world surrounding us. However, every person in poverty is not that way because God has not blessed them, just as every person who is materially well off has been blessed by God. Formalizing this into some sort of “Prosperity Gospel” is entirely too worldly and devolves into justification for acquisition of material things for their own sakes, so it’s wrong, even if underpinned by a fundamental truism.